Molly Crabapple Quotes
If there's a theme in my work, it's that I like to focus on smart people who are facing oppression and who are fighting back against it.
You can't use a drawing to prove a war crime. A drawing doesn't have that notion that it's proof of a reality. Because of that, you can do all sorts of interesting things in it.
Rejection is inevitable. Let it hit you hard for a moment, feel the hurt, and then move on.
I can't reasonably pretend to be a transparent and omniscient narrator who brings no personal perspective. That person doesn't exist.
Despite everything we know about photo manipulation, a photo is still considered an objective document.
But the thing about proving things? Your jaggedness just goads you on – it makes you sharper and harder. It gives you swagger.
Maybe you shouldn't be working as a jailer in Guantánamo. Maybe that's why you feel spiritually unhealthy.
The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations.
I hated being a child because to be a child means that you are essentially the property of your parents, benevolently or not.
I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.
You start like a white blanket and you have to preserve that, and each year that you live chips away at your essential value.
I absorbed the lie that any smart woman would use birth control and be responsible for her body. Obviously that's not true.
One thing about Guantánamo, beyond anything else, is the commitment against all odds to allow Americans to view themselves as the good guy, no matter what the situation is.
I came in as an established artist. People were hiring me for what I did and for who I was. I think that has given me a vast amount of leeway; I feel so lucky that I came in that way.